"Chilling and breathtaking"

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon living an idyllic suburban existence with his wife Anna and their two children. Lurking at the margins is Martin, a fatherless teen who begins insinuating himself into the family's life in ever-more unsettling displays, until the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear, as he threatens to reveal a long-forgotten transgression that could shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss.

Steeped in Greek tragedy, existential horror, and Hitchcockian psychodrama and brimming with unsettling humor and creeping dread, The Killing of a Sacred Deer darts confidently between genres and firmly cements Yorgos Lanthimos as a cinematic provocateur without precedent. The Greek filmmaker's sixth feature premiered in Competition at Cannes, where it won Best Screenplay, and opens this week at BAM.